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Marmion, Robert J. "Gibraltar of the south : defending Victoria : an analysis of colonial defence in Victoria, Australia, 1851-1901 /." Connect to thesis, 2009. http://repository.unimelb.edu.au/10187/4851.
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During the nineteenth century, defence was a major issue in Victoria and Australia, as indeed it was in other British colonies and the United Kingdom. Considerable pressure was brought to bear by London on the self-governing colonies to help provide for their own defence against internal unrest and also possible invasions or incursions by nations such as France, Russia and the United States.From 1851 until defence was handed over to the new Australian Commonwealth at Federation in 1901, the Victorian colonial government spent considerable energy and money fortifying parts of Port Phillip Bay and the western coastline as well as developing the first colonial navy within the British Empire. Citizens were invited to form volunteer corps in their local areas as a second tier of defence behind the Imperial troops stationed in Victoria. When the garrison of Imperial troops was withdrawn in 1870, these units of amateur citizen soldiers formed the basis of the colony’s defence force. Following years of indecision, ineptitude and ad hoc defence planning that had left the colony virtually defenceless, in 1883 Victoria finally adopted a professional approach to defending the colony. The new scheme of defence allowed for a complete re-organisation of not only the colony’s existing naval and military forces, but also the command structure and supporting services. For the first time an integrated defence scheme was established that co-ordinated the fixed defences (forts, batteries minefields) with the land and naval forces. Other original and unique aspects of the scheme included the appointment of the first Minister of Defence in the Australian colonies and the first colonial Council of Defence to oversee the joint defence program. All of this was achieved under the guidance of Imperial advisors who sought to integrate the colony’s defences into the wider Imperial context.
This thesis seeks to analyse Victoria’s colonial defence scheme on a number of levels – firstly, the nature of the final defence scheme that was finally adopted in 1883 after years of vacillation, secondly, the effectiveness of the scheme in defending Victoria, thirdly, how the scheme linked to the greater Australasian and Imperial defence, and finally the political, economic, social and technological factors that shaped defence in Victoria during the second half of the nineteenth century.
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Walter, Tamra Lynn. "Archaeological investigations at the Spanish colonial mission of Espíritu Santo de Zuñiga (41VT11), Victoria County, Texas /." Full text (PDF) from UMI/Dissertation Abstracts International, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/fullcit?p3004394.
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Hubbard, Timothy Fletcher, and mikewood@deakin edu au. "Towering over all the Italianate Villa in the colonial landscape." Deakin University. School of Architecture and Building, 2003. http://tux.lib.deakin.edu.au./adt-VDU/public/adt-VDU20051110.132654.
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The Picturesque aesthetic emerged in the later 18th century, uniting the Sublime and the Beautiful and had its roots in the paintings of Claude Lorrain. In Britain, and in Australia, it came to link art, literature and landscape with architecture. The Picturesque aesthetic informed much of colonial culture which was achieved, in part, through the production and dissemination of architectural pattern books catering for the aspirations of the rising middle classes. This was against a background of political change including democratic reform.
The Italianate villa, codified and promoted in such pattern books, was a particularly successful synthesis of style, form and function. The first Italianate villa in England, Cronkhill (1803) by John Nash contains all the ingredients which were essential to the model and had a deeper meaning. Deepdene (from 1807) by Thomas Hope gave the model further impetus. The works of Charles Barry and others in a second generation confirmed the model's acceptability. In Britain, its public status peaked with Osborne House (from 1845), Queen Victoria's Italianate villa on the Isle of Wight, Robert Kerr used a vignette of Osborne House on the title page of his sophisticated and influential pattern book, The Gentleman's House (1864,1871). It was one of many books, including those of J.C, Loudon and AJ. Downing, current in colonial Victoria. The latter authors and horticulturists were themselves villa dwellers with libraries and orchards, two criteria for the true villa lifestyle.
Situation and a sense of retreat were the two further criteria for the villa lifestyle. As the new colony of Victoria blossomed between 1851 and 1891, the Italianate villa, its garden setting and its landscape siting captured the tenor of the times. Melbourne, the capital was a rich manufacturing metropolis with a productive hinterland and international markets. The people enjoyed a prosperity and lifestyle which they wished to display. Those who had a position in society were keen to demonstrate and protect it. Those with aspirations attempted to provide the evidence necessary for such acceptance, The model matured and became ubiquitous. Its evolution can be traced through a series of increasingly complicated rural and suburban examples, a process which modernist historians have dismissed as a decadent decline. These villas, in fact, demonstrate an increasingly sophisticated retreat by merchants from the Town and by graziers from the Country. In both town and country, the towers of villas mark territory newly acquired. The same claim was often made in humbler situations.
Government House, Melbourne (from 1871), a splendid Italianate villa and arguably finer than Osborne House, was set in a cultivated landscape and towered above all It incorporated the four criteria and, in addition, claimed its domain, focused authority and established the colony's social status. It symbolised ancient notions of democracy and idealism but with a modem appreciation for the informal and domestic. Government House in Melbourne is the epitome of the Italianate villa in the colonial landscape and is the climax of the Picturesque aesthetic in Victoria.
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Morris, Richard William Tavener. "Celebrating Queen Victoria in the colonial city : the Diamond Jubilee in Hong Kong and Cape Town." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/40776.
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The 1897 Diamond Jubilee was a truly global celebration, breaking out across the wide expanses of the British Empire in a near simultaneous fashion. Yet these local events were not identical across the world. Using the local coverage of the celebrations that took place in Hong Kong and Cape Town, two of the empire’s most rapidly growing and significant port cities, this thesis uses the comparative method of analysis to uncover the nuances, similarities and discrepancies within them. This approach allows light to shine away from the focus of the festivities – Queen Victoria – and to be brought to bear more directly onto the locations and celebrants themselves. This thesis considers the socio-political and economic background to the events and examines whether these issues had any bearing on how the celebrations were performed and received. It also seeks to examine the subject of empire loyalty within these two cities, and the extent to which genuine levels of affection held towards the queen could be found. Whilst it is apparent that the celebrations were largely well-attended, and general levels of public engagement with the event appeared to be high, the arguments of this thesis take issue with the facile verdict, voiced by colonial institutions at the time, that active participation and attendance at the event was proof enough of its popularity. Instead, this work considers the different motivations that may have lay behind attendance at the festivities and also considers the various representations of Britishness that were also projected during the celebrations. In the final chapter, the Diamond Jubilee is considered in relation to the histories and identities of the two cities in which these celebrations took place.
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Del, Solar Rizo Patrón Vhal Alessandro. "Cartografía y construcción simbólica de una frontera: Vilcabamba y San Francisco de la Victoria en la época colonial." Master's thesis, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12404/18802.
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En los últimos años de la conquista española del Tahuantinsuyu sobrevivió un remanente del
estado Inca en la zona de Vilcabamba, un territorio próximo al Cusco protegido por su
geografía y condición de aproximación selvática. Esta situación le valió para permanecer
como el último reducto libre y autónomo de los Incas en pleno ejercicio de su poder donde por
un breve período de tiempo, lograron interactuar y negociar con autoridades coloniales que
aún no terminaban de afianzar su poder. Fueron tiempos de gran complejidad y cambio. Los
sucesos que acontecieron entre 1571 y 1572, partiendo con la llegada del virrey Francisco de
Toledo al Cusco, precipitaron la caída de Vilcabamba. Tras la captura y ejecución de Tupa
Amaru y el traslado de la población al nuevo asentamiento de San Francisco de la Victoria,
fundado por orden de Toledo, nada quedó luego sobre lo que se podría reconstruir la idea de
un estado incaico. Sin embargo, llama la atención la manera en que este espacio geográfico
fue representado en la cartografía colonial posterior hasta el siglo XVIII y cómo se le asoció
con una ubicación cardinal (relación Este con respecto al Cusco) que no se correspondió con
su realidad física (relación Noroeste). A partir del análisis de mapas coloniales que se
encuentran en el Archivo Central del Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores del Perú (MRE), este
trabajo busca repensar la forma en que los vemos y reflexionar sobre el entendimiento que se
tuvo del territorio sobre el cual se construyó un andamiaje simbólico que perdura hasta la
actualidad.In the last years of the Spanish conquest of the Tahuantinsuyu, a remnant of the Inca state survived in the Vilcabamba area, a territory near Cusco protected by its geography and condition of jungle approach. This situation was worthy for it to remain as the last free and autonomous bastion of the Incas in the full exercise of their power where for a short period of time, they managed to interact and negotiate with colonial authorities that had not yet consolidated their power. They were times of great complexity and change. The events that occurred between 1571 and 1572, starting with the arrival of Viceroy Francisco de Toledo to Cusco, precipitated the fall of Vilcabamba. After the capture and execution of Tupa Amaru and the relocation of the population to the new settlement of San Francisco de la Victoria, founded by order of Toledo, nothing remained after which the idea of an Inca state could be reconstructed. However, it attracts attention how this geographical space was represented in the subsequent colonial cartography until the 18th century and how it was associated with a cardinal location (East relation to Cusco) that did not correspond to its physical reality (Northwest relationship). Based on the analysis of colonial maps found in the Central Archive of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Peru (MRE), this work seeks to reconsider the way we see them and to think over on the past understanding of the territory on which a symbolic scaffolding was built that endures to the present.
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Lethbridge, Sarah Val. "A pagan and inferior race : the changing nature of racist ideology towards Chinese immigrants to colonial Victoria, 1840-1865 /." Title page, contents and introduction only, 1992. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09AR/09arl647.pdf.
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Ncube, Glen. "The making of rural health care in colonial Zimbabwe : a history of the Ndanga Medical Unit, Fort Victoria, 1930-1960s." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11490.
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This thesis adopts a social history of medicine approach to explore the contradictions surrounding a specific attempt to develop a rural healthcare system in south-eastern colonial Zimbabwe (Southern Rhodesia) from the 1930s to the 1960s. Influenced by a combination of healthcare discourses and models, in 1930, the colony’s new medical director formulated the first comprehensive rural healthcare delivery plan, premised on the idea of ‘medical units’ or outlying dispensaries networked around rural hospitals. The main argument of the thesis is that the Ndanga Medical Unit, as this pioneer medical unit was known, was a variant of a typical colonial project characterised by tensions between innovative endeavours to control disease on the one hand, and the need to fulfil broader colonial ambitions on the other.
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Woodland, John George, and woodland@bigpond net au. "R. H. Bland and the Port Phillip and Colonial Gold Mining Company." La Trobe University. School of Historical and European Studies, 2002. http://www.lib.latrobe.edu.au./thesis/public/adt-LTU20041222.162756.
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There are numerous histories of the Victorian goldfields, individual digger�s experiences, and the digging community as a whole. By contrast, very little has been written about the early gold mining companies. This thesis seeks to address this dearth in part, with a longitudinal study of one of the leading gold mining companies in nineteenth-century Victoria. The Port Phillip and Colonial Gold Mining Company (�Port Phillip Company�) was one of many �gold bubble� companies formed in England during 1851-3 to undertake gold mining in Australia. Within a few years it was the only survivor of this episode of British corporate gold-fever. The thesis argues that the influence of Rivett Henry Bland, the company�s managing director, was instrumental in its success, particularly in its early years when faced with anti-company sentiment and unfavourable mining legislation. The company established a large-scale operation at Clunes in 1857, rapidly assuming a pre-eminent position in colonial gold mining with its superior technology and mining practices. Historians generally portray Australian gold mining operations as small, locally funded and inefficient, prior to British capital investment in the late 1880s. While true of the larger picture, this simply emphasises the uniqueness of the British-owned and funded Port Phillip Company, the largest and most efficient gold mining operation in Australia from 1857 until the early 1880s. The company and its investment offshoot, the Victoria (London) Mining Company, invested in over thirty Victorian gold mining companies during the 1860s. Again, this runs counter to the general view that British investment in Australian gold mining began only in the late 1880s. Although the two companies� investments equalled only a fraction of the later wave of British capital in absolute monetary terms, their contribution to the growth of the Victorian gold mining industry at the time was significant.
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Gerlach, Tim. "The cabbage garden and the farinaceous village : aspects of colonial identity in Victoria and South Australia in the 1890's [sic] /." Title page and introduction only, 1993. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09AR/09arg371.pdf.
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Marmion, Bob, and victorianvolunteers@hotmail com. "The Victorian Volunteer Force on the central Victorian Goldfields, 1858-1883." La Trobe University. School of Arts and Education, 2003. http://www.lib.latrobe.edu.au./thesis/public/adt-LTU20050430.150445.
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During the 19th century, defence was a major issue in Victoria as indeed it was in other
British colonies and the United Kingdom. To help defend themselves, self governing
colonies throughout the Empire enlisted local citizens to serve as part time soldiers on
a voluntary basis.
The Victorian government in 1859 - 60 took a calculated risk in adopting a Volunteer
Force to underpin the whole colonial defence scheme, particularly as the military
effectiveness of the citizen soldiers was questionable due to the lack of any real
discipline within the Force and the part time nature of the military service. Whilst the
savings which resulted (from using Volunteers rather than expensive Imperial troops)
were spent on building forts and purchasing ordnance to protect Port Phillip Bay, there
were other advantages to be gained from the government decision. It harnessed the
considerable groundswell of public patriotism and pride in the Empire to ensure the
development of a colonial society with strong links to Britain.
The Government also linked Volunteering, stability and patriotism together as part of
a less obvious agenda for the goldfields. In a period of lingering unrest only a few
short years after Eureka, the Volunteers provided a clear indication of government
power and yet another sign (along with the judicial system, education, language) of the
importance and expanse of British society. Should there be any civil unrest on the
goldfields, the local Corps were ideally suited to the role of civil control. On a number
of occasions, the Volunteer Corps were called out to maintain law and order.
The thesis studies a major group of over 5,100 men on the goldfields over two
decades, particularly with regard to their motives for joining the Volunteers and their
demographics such as ages, occupations, addresses, activities and the networks
between members. By addressing the Corps demographics it is possible to understand
the role played by the Volunteers in the development of goldfields society.
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Clarke, Stephen John History Australian Defence Force Academy UNSW. "Marching to their own drum : British Army officers as military commandants in the Australian colonies and New Zealand 1870-1901." Awarded by:University of New South Wales - Australian Defence Force Academy. School of History, 1999. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/38659.
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Between 1870 and 1901, seventeen officers from the British army were appointed by the governments of the Australian colonies and New Zealand as commanders of their colonial military forces. There has been considerable speculation about the roles of these officers as imperial agents, developing colonial forces as a wartime reserve to imperial forces, but little in depth research. This thesis examines the role of the imperial commandants with an embryonic system of imperial defence and their contribution to the development of the colonial military forces. It is therefore a topic in British imperial history as much as Australian and New Zealand military history. British officers were appointed by colonial governments to overcome a shortfall in professional military expertise but increasingly came to be viewed by successive British administrations as a means of fulfilling an imperial defence agenda. The commandants as ???men-on-the-spot???, however, viewed themselves as independent reformers and got offside with both the imperial and colonial governments. This fact reveals that the commandants occupied a difficult position between the aspirations of London and the reality of the colonies. They certainly brought an imperial perspective to their commands and looked forward to the colonies playing a role on the imperial stage but generally did so in terms of a personal agenda rather than one set by London. This assessment is best demonstrated in the commandants??? independent stance at the outset of the South African War. The practice of appointing British commandants in Australasia was fraught with problems because of an inherent conflict in the goals of the commandants and their colonial governments. It resembles the Canadian experience of the British officers which reveals that the system of imperials military appointments as a whole was flawed. The problem remained that until a sufficient number of colonial officers had the prerequisite professional expertise for high command there was no alternative. The commandants were therefore the beginning rather than the end of a traditional reliance upon British military expertise. The lasting legacy of the commandants for the military forces of Australia and New Zealand was the development of colonial officers, transference of British military traditions, and the encouragement of a colonial military identity premised on the expectation of future participation in defence of the empire. The study provides a major revision to the existing historiography of imperial officers in the colonies, one which concludes that far from being ???imperial agents??? they were largely marching to their own drum.
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Vance, Nicole Ashley. "Integrators of Design: Parsi Patronage of Bombay's Architectural Ornament." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2016. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/6053.
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The seaport of Bombay is often referred to as India's "Gothic City." Reminders of British colonial rule are seen throughout South Bombay in its Victorian architecture and sculpture. In the heart of Bombay lies the Victoria Terminus, a towering, hybrid railway station blending gothic and vernacular architectures. Built at the height of the British Empire, the terminus is evidence of the rapid modernization of Bombay through the philanthropy of the Parsis. This religious and ethnic minority became quick allies to the British Raj; their generous donations funded the construction of the "Gothic City." The British viewed the Parsis as their peers, not the colonized. However, Parsi-funded architectural ornament reveals that they saw themselves on equal footing with Bombay's indigenous populations. The Parsis sought to integrate Indian and British art, design, and culture. Through their arts patronage they created an artistic heritage unique to Bombay, as seen in the architectural crown of Bombay, the Victoria Terminus.The Parsi philanthropist, Sir Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy was the most influential in Bombay's modern art world. He was chosen with other Indian elites to serve on the selection committee for the Great Exhibition of 1851 in London. He selected India's finest works to demonstrate India's rich tradition of the decorative arts. In turn, these works were viewed within the Indian Pavilion by the Victorian public and design reformer Owen Jones. Jones used many of the objects at the India Pavilion in his design book, The Grammar of Ornament. This book went on to inspire the eclectic architectural ornament of Victorian Britain and eventually Bombay. Jeejeebhoy sold the majority of the works from the exhibition to the Victorian and Albert Museum and the Department of Sciences and Art in South Kensington. The objects were studied by design students in South Kensington who were later hired by Jeejeebhoy to be instructors at the Bombay School of Art. This school taught academic European art alongside traditional Indian design forthe purpose of creating public art works. Thus, the Parsis were important cultural mediators who funded British and Indian craftsmen to create symbols of "progress," such as the Victoria Terminus, for a modern India.
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Nielsen, Danielle Leigh. "Reading the Empire from Afar: From Colonial Spectacles to Colonial Literacies." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1301074476.
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Waite, Julia. "Under construction : national identity and the display of colonial history at the National Museum of Singapore and the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa : a thesis submitted to the Victoria University of Wellington in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Museum and Heritage Studies /." ResearchArchive@Victoria e-Thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10063/1039.
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Forsdick, Charles. "Journeys between cultures : exoticism in the prose writings of Victor Segalen." Thesis, Lancaster University, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.306879.
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Kent, Eddy. "The company man: colonial agents and the idea of the virtuous empire, 1786-1901." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/411.
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The Company Man argues that corporate ways of organising communities permeated British imperial culture. My point of departure is the obsession shared between Anglo-Indian writers and imperial policymakers with the threat of unmanageable agency, the employee who will not follow orders. By taking up Giambattista Vico's claim that human subjects and human institutions condition each other reciprocally, I argue that Anglo-Indian literature is properly understood as one of a series of disciplinary apparatuses which were developed in response to that persistent logistical problem: how best to convince plenipotentiary agents to work in the interest of a mercantile employer, the East India Company.
The Company Man reconsiders the way we think and write about Victorian imperial culture by taking this institutional approach. For one thing, the dominant position of the Company highlights the limitation of our continuing dependence on the nation as a critical hermeneutic. Additionally, I show how the prevalence of ideas like duty, service, and sacrifice in colonial literature is more than simply the natural output of a nation looking to sacralise everyday practice in the wake of their famous "Victorian loss of faith." Rather, I place these ideas among a structure of feeling, which I call aristocratic virtue, that was developed by imperial policymakers looking to militate against the threat of rogue agents.
The subject material under consideration includes novels, short stories, poems, essays, memoirs, personal correspondence, and parliamentary speeches. These texts span a century but are clustered around four nodal points, which illustrate moments of innovation in the technologies of regulation and control. My opening chapter examines how the idea of an overseas empire first acquired virtue in the minds of the British public. The second explores how the Company grafted this virtue onto its corporate structure in its training colleges and competition exams. The third shows how Anglo-Indian literature continued to disseminate the rhetoric of self-sacrifice and noble suffering long after the Company ceded control to the Crown. The final chapter shows how this corporate culture reflects in that most canonical of imperial novels, Rudyard Kipling's Kim (1901).
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Beecroft, Mark. "Empires of patronage : Colonel William Sykes and the politics of Victorian science." Thesis, University of Kent, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.322718.
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Elliott, Jane E. "The colonies clothed : a survey of consumer interests in New South Wales and Victoria, 1787-1887 /." Title page, contents and introduction only, 1988. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phe462.pdf.
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Bhattacharjee, Shuhita. "The ‘crisis’ cornucopia: anxieties of religion and ‘secularism’ in Victorian fiction of colony and gender, 1880-1900." Diss., University of Iowa, 2015. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/6370.
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My thesis problematizes the simplistically and widely accepted idea of a Victorian ‘crisis of faith’ or religious ‘decline.’ Most historical and critical narratives of nineteenth-century Britain portray the Victorian Age as a period marked by a crisis of faith and a gradual secularization through (Darwinian) scientific developments. My work questions this by examining the late-Victorian novels of colonial India and the British New Woman novels. My first chapter deals with Victorian popular fiction that presents the invasion of Victorian London by colonial idols. The idols, overdetermined as both Hindu and Theosophist in inspiration, force the British legal system to recognize the limits of its own materialist perceptions of reality, so that it finally arrives at a deeper understanding of spirituality. My second chapter deals with Victorian New Woman novels where I study how the British New Woman as a literary figure, despite apparent unbelief and disempowerment, embodies a deep-seated religious power that can be assumed only by a woman and that helps challenge the assumption of declining faith. My final chapter examines the shift of scene to India, where once again the English men and women inadvertently express their fears of British secularization in the context of their encounter with Oriental faiths, but ultimately arrive at a richer appreciation of the religious ‘impossible’ through this encounter with colonial ‘otherness.’
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Connolly, Matthew C. "Reading as Forgetting: Sympathetic Transport and the Victorian Literary Marketplace." The Ohio State University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1531503253619764.
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Carter, Michelle Clare. "The functional morphology of avicularia in cheilostome bryozoans : a thesis submitted to the Victoria University of Wellington in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Marine Biology /." ResearchArchive@Victoria e-Thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10063/747.
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Camacho, Hernández María Isabel. "Caracterización del Ciclo Menstrual en un grupo de Mujeres de la localidad de Colonia Guadalupe Victoria, Municipio de Otzolotepec, Estado de México, 2013." Tesis de Licenciatura, Medicina-Quimica, 2013. http://ri.uaemex.mx/handle/123456789/13867.
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Bouaziz, Mansour. "Le bagne colonial dans le roman français, 1851-1938 : genèse et structure." Thesis, Université Côte d'Azur (ComUE), 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019AZUR2005.
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Le personnage du forçat est omniprésent dans la littérature française du XIXe et du début du XXe siècle. La représentation du monde des travaux forcés dans les bagnes portuaires et plus tard extra-métropolitains est à la croisée de la représentation plus large de la criminalité au XIXe siècle, selon un développement historique concomitant avec l’expansion coloniale. Les faits divers, ces petits bulletins d’alerte lancés comme une basse continue sur la cité, changent la manière de percevoir la criminalité. Obéissant à une structure particulière, le fait divers va remodeler la représentation littéraire de la criminalité. C’est ici qu’intervient le personnage du forçat. En effet, jouissant d’un statut particulier (mort/vivant/revenant), il offre aux romanciers des « conditions de possibilité » inédites jusque-là dans le monde des lettres. Jean Valjean, Monte-Cristo et Chéri-Bibi, pour ne citer que les plus connus, sont devenus des modèles dans ce qu’on peut appeler le « roman de la chiourme », (sous)-genre qui se développe en France à partir de 1830. Ainsi, Valjean donnera l’archétype du « forçat innocent », le converti miraculé et la réincarnation de Jésus-Christ. Monte-Cristo sera le Vengeur par excellence, dont le parcours donnera le modèle du genre – la vengeance étant un topos inévitable de la littérature populaire du XIXe siècle et jusqu’à nos jours. Chéri-Bibi quant à lui, au début du XXe siècle, incarne un tournant dans l’histoire du genre ; il serait au roman de la chiourme ce que Don Quichotte fut pour le roman de chevalerie : une somme et un dépassement. L’étude que nous proposons, centrée sur la « genèse et la structure » du roman du bagne, est un voyage à rebours dans l’histoire de ce genre qui ne dit pas son nomThe character of convict is omnipresent in French literature of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The representation of the world of hard labor in metropolitan and colonial prisons is at the crossroads of the broader representation of crime in the nineteenth century, according to a concomitant historical development with colonial expansion. The miscellaneous news, these little newsletters launched continually on the city, change the way of perceiving crime. Obeying a specific structure, this type of news will reshape the literary representation of crime. This is where the character of the convict comes in. Indeed, enjoying a special status (dead/alive/revenant), it offers novelists "conditions of possibility" unseen until then in the world of letters. Jean Valjean, Monte-Cristo and Chéri-Bibi, to name only the well known, have become models in what we can call the "novel of the convicts", literary (sub)-genre which develops in France from 1830 onwards. Thus, Valjean will give the archetype of the "innocent convict", the miraculous convert and the reincarnation of Jesus Christ. Monte-Cristo will be the Avenger par excellence, whose course will be the model of the genre - revenge being an inevitable topos of popular literature of the nineteenth century and until today. As for Chéri-Bibi, at the beginning of the twentieth century, embodies a turning point in the history of gender; it would be to the novel of the convict what Don Quixote was for the chivalric romance: a sum and a surpassing. The study we propose, oriented on the "genesis and structure" of the prison novel, is a reverse journey in history of this literary genre that does not say its name
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Sedeño-Guillén, Kevin R. "MODERNIDADES CONTRA-NATURA: CRÍTICA ILUSTRADA, PRENSA PERIÓDICA Y CULTURA MANUSCRITA EN EL SIGLO XVIII AMERICANO." UKnowledge, 2017. https://uknowledge.uky.edu/hisp_etds/34.
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This dissertation studies the emergence of literary history and criticism in the Americas during the eighteenth century. It focuses upon the study of 1.) Natural history as a matrix of literary history and criticism; 2.) The geopolitical functions of literary history and criticism in the periodical press; and 3.) The recovery of manuscripts as a residual product of modernity. Texts associated with a hegemonic Enlightenment, such as “Disertación sobre el derecho público universal” by Francisco Javier de Uriortúa, are analyzed. Next, we study modern historical-critical thought as emphasized in the periodical press of Bogotá and Quito. Finally, the circulation of manuscripts is studied as an indicator of the participation of Spanish American authors in discussions about the Enlightenment. For the latter, the dissertation analyzes the development of theories of good taste in El Nuevo Luciano de Quito by Eugenio Espejo and in the Plan elementál del buen gusto en todo genéro de materias by Manuel del Socorro Rodríguez de la Victoria. The study challenges the epistemological conflict provoked by the handwritten condition of a considerable portion of scholarship from the eighteenth century, in which the projects of an American modernity become subjugated by the power of European print.
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Ericksen, Connie. "Burial Plots: Finding Theatre in the Thanatology of Colonial North Coast Peru." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2017. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/6713.
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Spain's invasion of the Andes initiated a social drama unprecedented in the experience of the Andean natives. Spanish and Spanish-conscripted native chroniclers wrote extensively about Inca pageantry, spectacle, and ritual, and hastily attributed pagan belief to performances they witnessed or heard about. With equal haste, the Spanish appropriated performance as means of introducing and enforcing Christianity. In this thesis, I treat performance as the central feature of Andean Colonial transition. Performance may be viewed as an ephemeral feature of the Andean transition but fortunately, in mortuary performances (dealing with death and treatment of the body); there are many theatrical elements that survive in mortuary contexts (e.g., staging, setting, costumes, make-up, props, and choreography). Archaeology, history, and ethnographic observation together illustrate that performance has alternately established, celebrated, or subverted Andean power relations during hundreds of years. Mortuary performances are especially excellent commentaries about religious climate of Colonial Peru. In this thesis I analyze mortuary performance in Colonial and contemporary Peru. I argue that the Colonial Spanish saw performance as evidence of belief and sought to transform pagan belief to Christian belief. Ultimately, communities, religion, and performance itself were transformed; integrated and reintegrated into dynamic personal and public expressions.
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Cappel, Morgan Morgan. "Indigenous Ghosts and Haunted Landscapes: The Anglo-Indian Colonial Gothic Fiction of B.M. Croker and Alice Perrin." Ohio University Honors Tutorial College / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1524597175648086.
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McIntyre, Megan. "'Adding wisdom to their natures': British colonial educational practices and the possibility of women's personal emancipation in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, Buchi Emecheta's Joys of motherhood and Tsitsi Dangrembga's Nervous conditions." Scholar Commons, 2009. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/2093.
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Popular opinion suggests that education is the 'silver bullet' to end poverty, famine, and all the worlds' ills. The reality of education for women, however, is not as easily classified as transformative. This paper seeks to illuminate, through historical research and literary analysis, the connections between the charity education of Victorian Britain, a system examined in Jane Eyre, and the missionary education which comprised the majority of the educational systems in the British colonies, including Nigeria and Zimbabwe, the settings of Emecheta and Dangarembga's works.
Beginning with Charlotte Brontë's Victorian classic, Jane Eyre, and moving through time, space and situation to the colonial experience novels of Buchi Emecheta and Tsitsi Dangarembga, we find instead that education, particularly British philanthropic education, from charity schools for children without means in the 18th and 19th century to the mission schools that comprised the basis for British colonial education in Africa, produces women who benefit only in very limited ways. For Charlotte Brontë's title protagonist, as for many of the characters in Jane Eyre, Nervous Conditions, and The Joys of Motherhood, education represents a new life. Brontë, Dangarembga, and Emecheta all offer education as a possible escape for characters within their novels, but the length of and price for that escape differs based on a character's role within a colonial set of identities, whether the character in question is part of the colonizing power or one of its colonial victims.
When taken together, Jane Eyre and these two African experience novels demonstrate that British education is largely ineffectual in granting female characters the kind of freedom that education is supposed to instill. The price of the hybridity necessary to survive in the colonial situation could very well be the complete loss of self, a disintegration of identity, as it is for Nyasha, who is, according to her own analysis of her situation, neither Shona nor British and therefore is no one at all.
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Eberly, Naomi. "Manning the Empire: The Pedagogical Function of Sherlock Holmes and Phileas Fogg in the Late Victorian Period." Ashland University Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=auhonors1399585447.
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Ouahès, Rachid Cohen Jean-Louis. "Le forum et l'informe projet et régulation publique à Alger, 1830-1860 /." Saint-Denis : Université de Paris 8, 2008. http://www.bu.univ-paris8.fr/web/collections/theses/OuahesThese1.pdf.
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Pasala, Kavitha. "Flora Annie Steel: British Memsahib or New Woman?" University of Dayton / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1374685250.
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Schmidt, Nelly. "Victor Schoelcher et le processus de destruction du système esclavagiste aux Caraïbes au XIXe siècle." Paris 4, 1991. http://www.theses.fr/1991PA040047.
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Victor Schœlcher (1804-1893) consacra son œuvre écrite et son activité d'homme politique, à partir de 1830, à l'analyse des questions coloniales et de l'esclavage. Il fut le seul abolitionniste européen à vivre les trois phases du processus de destruction du système esclavagiste aux Caraïbes : 1) la période de campagne pour l'abolition de l'esclavage, 2) la phase d'abolition elle-même, en tant que sous-secrétaire d'état aux colonies et auteur du décret d'émancipation du 27 avril 1848, et 3) la longue période des transformations socio-économiques et politiques post-esclavagistes. Il exerça une influence déterminante sur les orientations de la politique française aux caraïbes pendant toute la seconde moitié du XIXe siècle et même au-delà. L'analyse de son œuvre permet une perception comparative de cette phase fondamentale de l'histoire des Caraïbes. Cette thèse est construite en fonction de quatre axes principaux: l'élaboration du projet schœlcherien de réforme coloniale, V. Schœlcher au pouvoir en 1848 et les premières mutations post-abolitionnistes (1848-1854), l'application du "modèle" socio-politique schœlcherien et enfin, le rayonnement politique de V. Schœlcher en tant que représentant républicain des colonies au parlement, entre 1871 et la fin du XIXe siècleVictor Schœlcher 's written work and political action, from the years 1830s, were concerned with colonial questions and slavery. He has been the only European abolitionist living the three stages of the process of destruction of the slavery system in the Caribbean: 1) the abolitionist campaign, 2) the abolition itself, as sous-secretaire d'etat for the colonies and author 0f the abolition bill of April 27, 1848, and 3) the long period of post-slavery social-economic and political transformations. He had a conclusive influence on the French policy in the Caribbean during the second half of the XIXth century and even afterwards. The analysis of his work does allow a comparative perspective on that fundamental period of Caribbean history. This thesis is built around four main axes: the elaboration of Schœlcher's colonial reform project, V. Schœlcher coming into power in 1848 and the first post-slavery transformations (1848-1854), the application of the social and political "model" of Schœlcher and his political influence, as a republican parliament deputy for the colonies, between 1871 and the end of the XIXth. Century
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Ouahès, Rachid. "Le forum et l'informe : projet et régulation publique à Alger, 1830-1860." Paris 8, 2006. http://octaviana.fr/document/121322068#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=0.
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Cette thèse examine les conditions de la transformation de la ville d’Alger, dans les trente premières années de sa colonisation et dans la perspective des pratiques transmises au XXe siècle. Elle tente de faire un lien entre ces pratiques urbanistiques et les idéologies politiques qui les sous-tendent, en mettant en lumière la dimension réactive de celles-ci, dans le contexte libéral du régime de la Monarchie de Juillet. En se basant sur les concepts avancés notamment par Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze et Félix Guattari, à partir du contexte de la décolonisation, elle réexamine certains aspects de son histoire du point de vue des politiques et de l’esthétique urbaines, liés aux réflexes de déterritorialisation et à l’ouverture d’un champ expérimental outrepassant les résistances sociales et culturelles du contexte métropolitain. Avec l’exportation des pratiques d’organisation et de contrôle du territoire, le mouvement colonial a également exacerbé les conflits entre les sensibilités libérale et étatique, qui ont dominé le champ de sa culture et de sa politique jusque dans l’entre-deux-guerres. Les expériences des protectorats du Maroc et de Tunisie au tournant du XXe siècle éclairent comparativement la dimension libérale donnée terrain algérois, ainsi que la résistance de certaines institutions étatiques et militaires attachées aux principes développés depuis les Lumières et sous l’Empire, notamment dans les corps du Génie militaire et des Ponts et Chaussées. L’érection au centre de la ville pré-coloniale, de la place du Gouvernement, sur des fondements spéculatifs, est le premier épisode du conflit durable qui s’installera dans les opérations d’alignement des rues, de rénovation des bâtiments publics ou d’extension à l’extérieur des remparts, et gardera une pertinence jusque dans les années 1950. Les dimensions politique et esthétique de cette opposition sont révélées par l’attribution fautive de la conception du Front de mer d’Alger à l’architecte Chassériau, dans un geste de défense du « municipalisme » et dans une conception libérale de l’art qui a des origines dans la distinction entre « monuments » et « documents » et aux questionnements de la période romantique, relatifs à l’entreprise coloniale. La notion d’ « informe » que Georges Bataille développera dans le même temps, en réaction, à cette conception de l’art, est ainsi éclairée par l’irruption de la sphère coloniale dans la culture classique occidentaleThis thesis looks at the conditions in which Algiers had been transformed, in the first three decades of colonial rule, experimenting principles that led to twentieth century urban practice. The context of liberal policies undertaken under the Louis-Philippe regime, has given to the algerian experiment a peculiar liberal dimension that had been challenged by some state institutions like the civil and military engineering Corps, from the very first undertaking, that is the openning of the “Place du Gouvernement”, in 1831. Using concepts that had been mainly developped by Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, in the aftermath of the decolonizing process, this thesis tries to reveal some of the deterritorialization reflexes in the algerian context, along with conflicts dividing liberals and state oriented policies. It also tries to show the ties that bring the concept of “informe”, built by Georges Bataille on the distinction of “monuments” versus “documents”, as the colonial sphere is inserted in the classical western culture
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Jacobs, Tessa Katherine. "The Monkey in the Looking Glass: Fairies, Folklore and Evolutionary Theory in the Search for Britain's Imperial Self." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2012. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/81.
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In his groundbreaking work of postcolonial theory, Orientalism, Edward Said puts forth the idea that imperial Europe asserted an identity by constructing the character of its colonized subjects. Said writes that his book tries to “show that European culture gained in strength and identity by setting itself off against the Orient as a sort of surrogate and even underground self” (3). The object of this thesis is a related project, for it too is a search for imperial Britain’s surrogate or underground self. Yet rather than positioning this search within the British colonies, this thesis takes as its context a land and people that were at once more intimate and more alien: the races and landscapes of Fairyland.
This Thesis attempts to situate the fairy folklore and literature from the Victorian era within the context of greater social and political ideologies of the age, specifically those pertaining to national identity, imperial power and race. In doing so it will analyze Charles Kingsley’s Water-Babies, Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Kenneth Grahame’s The Golden Age, George MacDonald’s The Princess and the Goblin, Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre and Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden concluding that the British self proposed by these works was an uncomfortable manifestation, and haunted by the anxieties and discontinuities that arose as imperial Britain attempted to navigate an identity within Victorian conceptions of race and power.
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Ayres, Sara Craig. "Hidden histories and multiple meanings : the Richard Dennett collection at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter." Thesis, University of Plymouth, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/1039.
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Ethnographic collections in western museums such as the Royal Albert Memorial Museum (RAMM) carry many meanings, but by definition, they represent an intercultural encounter. This history of this encounter is often lost, overlooked, or obscured, and yet it has bearing on how the objects in the collection have been interpreted and understood. This thesis uncovers the hidden history of one particular collection in the RAMM and examines the multiple meanings that have been attributed to the objects in the collection over time. The Richard Dennett Collection was made in Africa in the years when European powers began to colonise the Congo basin. Richard Edward Dennett (1857-1921) worked as a trader in the Lower Congo between 1879 and 1902. The collection was accessioned by the RAMM in 1889. The research contextualises the collection by making a close analysis of primary source material which was produced by the collector and by his contemporaries, and includes publications, correspondence, photographs and illustrations which have been studied in museums and archives in Europe and North America. Dennett was personally involved with key events in the colonial history of this part of Africa but he also studied the indigenous BaKongo community, recording his observations about their political and material culture. As a result he became involved in the institutions of anthropology and folklore in Britain which were attempting to explain, classify and interpret such cultures. Through examining Dennett’s history this research has been able to explore the Congo context, the indigenous society, and those European institutions which collected and interpreted BaKongo collections. The research has added considerably to the museum’s knowledge about this collection and its collector, and the study responds to the practical imperative implicit in a Collaborative Doctoral Project, by proposing a small temporary exhibition in the RAMM to explore these histories and meanings. In making this proposal the research considers the current curatorial debate concerning responsible approaches to colonial collections, and assesses some of the strategies that are being employed in museums today.
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Wood, Malcolm Robert. "Presbyterians in colonial Victoria." Phd thesis, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/146405.
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Opondo, Paul Abiero. "Fishers and fish traders of lake victoria : colonial of fish and the development of fish production in Kenya, 1880-1978." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/4301.
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The developemnt of fisheries in Lake Victoria is faced with a myriad challenges including overfishing, environmental destruction, disappearance of certain indigenous species and pollution. All these problems can be located within the social, economic and political systems that exists today and in the past. This thesis, ‘Fishers and Fish Traders of Lake Victoria : Colonial Policy and the Development of Fish Production in Kenya, 1880-1978’, argues that the Luo fishers had their own indigenous techniques of fishing, modes of preservation and systems of management that ensured sustainable utilisation of fisheries. The thesis examines the role of the Luo fishers in the sustainable usage of the Lake Victoria fisheries.
The British colonial settlers came up with new policies of plantation and commercial farming, taxation and forced labour, all of which encouraged the Luo fishers to partially break with their pre-colonial systems and create new ways of responding to the demands of the colonial state. The study argues that the coming of colonialism and its attendant capitalism introduced new fishing gear as well as new species, such as mbuta, that were inimical to the sustainable utilisation of the Lake Victoria fisheries. The colonial regime also introduced new practices of fisheries management such as scouts, licensing, closed seasons and the numbering of boats, practices geared towards ensuring the commercial production and development of the fisheries. This commercialisation led to cut-throat competition between Asian, European and African fish traders. The coming of independence in 1963 brought some changes, such as the provision of credit facilities, new technology, and attempts by the new African government to more effectively control and manage the fisheries. However, not much changed in terms of policy objectives, and most of the colonial policies remained unchanged. New industries were established around the fisheries, but most remained in the hands of Asians and a few African middlemen. The small-scale fishers continued to struggle against the commercialisation of fishery production, remaining voiceless and marginalised. The study recommends an all inclusive participatory approach to solve the problems currently affecting the Lake Victoria fisheries.History
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Roberts, Phillip. "A Rose by any other name : historical epidemiology in late colonial and early modern Victoria (1853-c.1930)." Phd thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/150611.
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This thesis contains an examination of infectious disease and its socio-economic relationship with the Victorian population during the colonial and early modern eras (1853 to c.1930) (the study period). This involved interpreting some now obsolete diagnoses, studying disease natural history and engaging in the debate surrounding the decline in mortality rates in the nineteenth century. The study period has proved to be an extremely good model in which to test the effects of various social and economic variables on health at a population level. The Gold Rush of the early 1850s and the resulting waves of boom and bust changed the population demography, economic development, and social diversification and stratification. This will be demonstrated to have had an effect on population health both at the state and local levels. Disease exposure and disease susceptibility were observed to vary substantially over the study period for typhoid and whooping cough: typhoid mortality shifts dramatically from children and older adults before 1870, to young adults after 1870, which is indicative of a change in disease exposure patterns with the urbanisation of the colony; whooping cough mortality patterns reduce in some groups compared to others, indicative of changing susceptibility to the disease. These examples highlight the heterogeneity of factors affecting disease causation for different infectious diseases and therefore the specificity of information that can be drawn from observations of changing disease patterns. It was shown that variation in the natural history of disease also occurred. For Group A streptococcal infections, a scarlet fever epidemic cycle was observed until 1876, from which point on mortality from post streptococcal nephritis increases dramatically. For diphtheria cases, however, the natural history of the disease remained very predictable until medical developments in the late nineteenth century. Like disease causation the factors associated with disease progression are also disease specific. To investigate variation in the natural history of diseases with a more complicated ecology, tuberculosis and syphilis mortality and morbidity were investigated. It was shown that for tuberculosis mortality from pulmonary and extra-pulmonary tuberculosis was negatively correlated for much of the study period. Mortality from congenital syphilis and venereal syphilis also trended in opposite directions, with mortality in children trending higher while syphilis mortality in adults trended lower. The principal findings of this work are how disease-specific the ecological interaction is between parasite and host and how responsive a particular disease is to a historical event (which can be interpreted as an ecological change in behaviour by the host in the parasite host relationship) whilst other diseases may not have any reaction or a completely different reactions to the same historical event. This thesis just scratches the surface of the potential of this data in furthering our understanding of the ecological interaction between parasite and host in the past.
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Findlay, Elisabeth Ann. "Portraiture in early Victoria, 1834-1861 : a study of art and patronage in colonial society." Phd thesis, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/10758.
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In this thesis the history of portraiture in the British-ruled Australian colony of
Victoria is examined, focusing on the period 1834 to 1861. Portraits from early
colonial Victoria are analysed in their artistic and social context, with the emphasis
placed on the role of patronage. Arguments are advanced on the relationship of
portraiture to class and gender struggles, examining the portrait in terms of the
political, social and cultural values of the various groups within early Victoria.
Issues uniquely pertinent to colonial society and the mid-nineteenth century are also
raised, including the influence of Britain and the rise of photography and other
means of mechanical reproduction.
The thesis is divided into three volumes. The first is the text; the second the
appendices on the portraitists and the subjects/sitters; and the third is the 'Catalogue
of Portraits'. This catalogue forms the empirical base of the thesis and represents the
significant portion of the primary research. Most of the portraits listed in the
catalogue have not been examined elsewhere.
In the 'Introduction' the aims and parameters are outlined, with a discussion of the
scope of the thesis and the theoretical foundations. The first chapter presents a
survey of art and society in Victoria during the years 1834 to 1861 and provides a
background against which the portraits can be discussed. In the succeeding five
chapters major issues and types of portraiture are focused upon: 'Chapter 2' is
concerned with portraits of heroes and nineteenth century notions of hero-worship;
'Chapter 3' with family portraiture and the gentry; 'Chapter 4' with the impact of
caricature and the political portrait print; and 'Chapter 5' with the portraits of the
middle classes as well as the role of the portraitists. The final chapter discusses
portraiture as entertainment. In the 'Conclusions' the major themes are summarised,
recounting the most important findings on the history of portraiture in early Victoria.
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Carlson, Bridget Rachel. "Immigrant placemaking in colonial Australia : the Italian-speaking settlers of Daylesford." Thesis, 1997. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/15416/.
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The Italian-speaking settlers of nineteenth century Daylesford were among the first sizeable group of non-English speakers to contest the prevailing Anglo-centricism and to help pave the way towards Australia's multicultural future. The examination of this group interweaves the particular histories of fifteen families with thematic chapters which: define the nature of the emigrant community and the reasons for departure from the homeland; relate the journey to the ports of Melbourne and Sydney as a rite
of passage to settlement; describe the early experiences of the Italian speakers as miners and labourers; explore their drift into traditional occupations as farmers and
business people in the Daylesford community; and examine their family life and attempts to reconstruct a European life-style in Australia while recognising a growing
commitment to an 'Australian' way of life.
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Wells, Andrew David. "A Marxist reappraisal of Australian capitalism : the rise of Anglo-Colonial finance capital in New South Wales and Victoria, 1830-1890." Phd thesis, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/121712.
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This thesis investigates aspects of the formation and evolution
of capitalism in colonial New South Wales. Four principal themes are
addressed throughout the discussion: first, the role of British
imperialism in establishing and shaping colonial capitalism; second,
the role of the British and colonial states in expanding commodity
relations; third, the dominant areas and agents involved in capital
accumulation, and last, the nature of the class relations and property
connections that underpinned these processes. The structure and
dynamics of class relations, especially the relations of production,
are both the premise and conclusion of this study.
The approach adopted to realise these objects is both theoretical
and empirical. The study proceeds through three major parts. The
first part is a critical investigation of the historiography pertinent
to my principal themes and the specification of the problems discussed
in the subsequent parts. Here, the rudiments of marxist
historiography are introduced and a sustained critical discussion of
Australian economic historiography is presented. By the close of Part
One, the approach to be pursued, the themes to be investigated, the
departures from non-marxist historiography and the sequence of
empirical analyses are made explicit.
Part Two of the thesis is concerned with the formation of
colonial capitalism. Capitalism depends on the commodification of
economic relations: thus this process of commodification is examined
in the context of the land, labour and capital markets. Because the
initial process of securing capitalist relations of production is as
much political as economic, and consequently as much imperial as
colonial, the forms of political or state power are discussed. The
dominant relations of production before 1860 are defined as ascendant,
though contradictory, Anglo-colonial merchant capital. Part Three investigates three dimensions of colonial capitalist
development. These investigations pre-suppose the dominance of
commodity relations and pursue their intensification and expansion
into colonial landed property, the transformation of colonial
pastoralism and the forms and directions of public economic activity.
In all these cases the focus remains on the four major themes
identified above. Part Three closes with an analysis of dominant
class relations, a demonstration of the fundamental argument advanced
throughout the thesis concerning the prominence that should be given
to Anglo-colonial finance capital. Between 1860 and 1890 the major
economic relations and class structure were shaped by Anglo-colonial
finance capital.
The thesis concludes with an assessment of the implications of
this study for Australian historiography, including marxist
historiography, and indicates possible directions for future
investigations.
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Dynan, Loretta Mary. "Forging an identity on Central Victoria’s colonial landscape: Patrick Cooke and the Irish influence 1845-1903." Thesis, 2021. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/43469/.
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This thesis analyses the impact of life experience on Irish settlement patterns in
colonial Victoria. It represents the first scholarly analysis of a settler farmer in the Pyalong
district. The thesis focuses on how Irish settler Patrick Cooke adapted successfully to life in
the Antipodes and how he forged a relationship with the land on which he settled. The
significance of the study goes beyond one individual’s experience of late-nineteenth colonial
settlement. With emphasis on the spatial connection between people and place, it provides new
insights into the relationship of individuals to the geographical space they inhabited during
settlement in inland Victoria.
The thesis draws on extensive Irish and Australian research data, to locate Cooke’s life
in the context of Australia and Ireland, the places in which he lived. By focusing on an underresearched
rural district in central Victoria it furthers historical understanding of colonial
settlement and shows how Irish immigrants redefined themselves and gave meaning to their
lives in their new land.
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Ryan, Michael Francis. "Does early colonial art provide an accurate guide to the nature and structure of the pre-European forests and woodlands of South-Eastern Australia? : a study focusing on Victoria and Tasmania." Master's thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/147606.
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Khanna, Nishad. "Decolonizing youth participatory action research practices: A case study of a girl-centered, anti-racist, feminist PAR with Indigenous and racialized girls in Victoria, BC." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/3256.
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This study focuses on a girl-centered, anti-racist, feminist PAR program with Indigenous and racialized girls in Victoria, a smaller, predominantly white city in British Columbia, Canada. As a partnership among antidote: Multiracial and Indigenous Girls and Women’s Network, and an interdisciplinary team of academic researchers who are also members of antidote, this project defies typical insider-outsider dynamics. In this thesis, I intend to speak back to mainstream Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) literature, contesting the notion that this methodology provides an easy escape from the research engine and underlying colonial formations. Practices of YPAR are continuously (re)colonized, producing new forms of colonialism and imperialism. Our process can be described as an ongoing rhythm of disruptions and recolonizations that are not simple opposites, but are mutually reliant and constitutive within neocolonial formations. In other words, our practice involved creatively disrupting new forms of colonialism and imperialism as they emerged, while recognizing that our responses were not outside of these formations. I seek to make our roles as researchers visible, rather than hidden by hegemonic equalizing claims of PAR, and will explore some of the ways that white noise infiltrated our ongoing efforts of decolonizing YPAR practices.Graduate
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Rangelov, James Theodore Ivan. "The Port Phillip magistrates, 1835-1851." Thesis, 2005. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/15359/.
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Social histories of how people lived in the early years of the Australian colonies have generally underestimated the significance of the magistracy. This dissertation undertakes a detailed legal examination of a sample of the cases brought before the magistrates of the Port Phillip District, as Victoria was then known, in the 1830s and 1840s. Extant magisterial records demonstrate the crucial
importance of these 'gentlemen', so styled, in enforcing collective norms of behaviour, stabilising an otherwise disorderly population in raw conditions, and thereby providing a bridge between English and colonial social structures.
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Hewenn, Jessica. "Unsettling: Settler Colonial Environments in Neo-Victorian Fiction." Phd thesis, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/146633.
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In the introduction to the first issue of Neo-Victorian Studies,
Marie-Luise Kohlke specifically emphasised neo-Victorian texts
concerning ecological trauma, and called for an examination of
how such texts represent “the commodification and destruction
of the natural world and its biodiversity, and the resulting
alienation of humankind from its environment” (2008, 8).
Neo-Victorian fiction concerned with colonialism and its
environmental impact is abundant, with three of the ten Costa
Book Awards since the turn of the new millennium granted to
novels taking this as their subject. Yet to date scholarship has
largely foregone examination of environmental concerns.
Neo-Victorian scholarship that has explored the representation of
natural history has done so by focalising through the
religion/science dichotomy, examining texts that are concerned
with the crisis-of-faith provoked by Darwinian theories of
natural selection. This has missed what I argue is the
significance of many of the post-millennial British novels set in
the colonies: that they are staged not at the frontiers of the
expanding empire, or at the forefront of the intellectual
disruption caused by Darwin’s theories, but in the literal and
figurative settlements that follow. By reimaging the process of
settling, particularly the way in which settlers assume a form of
indigeneity to the new landscape and reshape their identity
through it, these novels grapple with the ongoing issues of
identity in a world of dislocation, both literal and
metaphorical, from the natural world.
This thesis takes up Kohlke’s original call for engagement with
colonialism’s environmental impact as is represented in
neo-Victorian texts. Drawing on settler colonial theory in order
to redress the occlusion of the specific and ongoing politics of
settler colonies in existing debates, I argue that
post-millennial British neo-Victorian fiction is returning to
sites of settler colonisation to question the settlement
narrative, often disrupting it by forestalling the possibility of
remaining unsettled. Examining Matthew Kneale’s English
Passengers (2000), Stef Penney’s The Tenderness of Wolves
(2006), Jem Poster’s Rifling Paradise (2006), Nicholas
Drayson’s Love and the Platypus (2007), Jeremy Page’s The
Collector of Lost Things (2013) and Rebecca Hunt’s Everland
(2014), this thesis explores texts set in Australia and Canada,
and extends to the polar regions as the limit of Victorian
settlement, in which the landscapes are simultaneously beyond
human encapsulation and profoundly susceptible to human impact.
Taken together, these analyses demonstrate that settler colonial
neo-Victorian novels incorporate and disrupt the process of
identification with the colonial natural world, and in doing so
present settler colonial ecological identity as unresolved.
Moreover, I argue that it is by reading these texts with a focus
on their representations and interrogations of the natural world
that their ambivalence about belonging becomes evident, and that
this unsettled effect is a reflection of postmillennial concerns
about ecological awareness. In their witness-bearing to the
trauma of settlement and their questioning of what it means to
belong to an environment, these texts are willing to face the
possibility of permanent unsettlement.
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Norton-Amor, Elizabeth Anne. ""Writing Empire": South Africa and the colonial fiction of Anthony Trollope." Thesis, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/1254.
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Postcolonial theory teaches us that the Empire was as much a textual as a physical undertaking: the Empire was (and is) experienced through its texts. Anthony Trollope was an enthusiastic traveller and helped to "write the Empire" in both his travel narratives and in his novels. This study examines his travel narrative South Africa, and explores how the colony is depicted in this work and in Trollope's "colonial" novels: Harry Heathcote of Gangoil, John Caldigate, An Old Man's Love and The Fixed Period. Trollope's colonies are places of moral danger where the value systems instilled by English society provide the only means for overcoming the corrupting influences of the colonial space. He writes the colonies as images of Britain, but these images are never true reflections of the homeland: there is always an element of distortion present, which serves to subvert the "Englishness" of his colonial landscapes.English Studies
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Jennings, Nathan Albert. "Riding to victory : mounted arms of colonial and revolutionary Texas, 1822-1836." 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/22292.
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The nation-state of Texas was forged in the crucible of frontier warfare. From 1822 to 1836, the embattled Anglo-American settlers of Colonial Tejas and the Texas Revolution formed an adaptive mounted arms tradition to facilitate territorial defense and aggression. This evolution incorporated martial influences from the United States, Mexico, and Amerindians, as the colonists first adapted tactically as mounted militia in Anglo-Indian warfare, and then adapted organizationally as nationalized corps of rangers and cavalry during the Texan War for Independence. While the colonial conflicts centered exclusively on counterguerrilla interdiction and expeditions against Native opponents, the revolutionary contest included simultaneous engagement in unconventional and conventional campaigns against tribal warriors and the Mexican Army. These combat experiences resulted in a versatile frontier cavalry tradition based in mobility, firepower, and tactical adaptation, which subsequently served Texas throughout a century of border and wartime conflicts.text
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Shah, Siddhartha V. "Ornamenting the Raj: Opulence and Spectacle in Victorian India." Thesis, 2019. https://doi.org/10.7916/d8-fdcx-f478.
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This dissertation examines symbolic representations of British imperial power through the appropriation and display of Indian “things.” The objects and spectacles examined here—the Koh-i-Noor diamond, tigers and tiger hunting, and turbaned men on display—are all invested with a range of social and symbolic meanings within both their indigenous and imperial contexts. The things appropriated into the British Empire’s styling of itself that are discussed in this study were each traditionally associated with masculinity and kingship in their native Indian context and subsequently displayed on and around the bodies of British women. This study advances a relationship between the theatrics of British imperial power, and the emasculation and objectification of Indian men. A list of images has been submitted as a supplemental digital file with this dissertation.
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Elliott, Jane E. "The colonies clothed : a survey of consumer interests in New South Wales and Victoria, 1787-1887 / J. Elliott." Thesis, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/18785.
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Ihmels, Melanie. "The mischiefmakers: woman’s movement development in Victoria, British Columbia 1850-1910." Thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/5178.
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This thesis examines the beginning of Victoria, British Columbia’s, women’s movement, stretching its ‘start’ date to the late 1850s while arguing that, to some extent, the local movement criss-crossed racial, ethnic, religious, and gender boundaries. It also highlights how the people involved with the women’s movement in Victoria challenged traditional beliefs, like separate sphere ideology, about women’s position in society and contributed to the introduction of new more egalitarian views of women in a process that continues to the present day. Chapter One challenges current understandings of First Wave Feminism, stretching its limitations regarding time and persons involved with social reform and women’s rights goals, while showing that the issue of ‘suffrage’ alone did not make a ‘women’s movement’. Chapter 2 focuses on how the local ‘women’s movement’ coalesced and expanded in the late 1890s to embrace various social reform causes and demands for women’s rights and recognition, it reflected a unique spirit that emanated from Victorian traditionalism, skewed gender ratios, and a frontier mentality. Chapter 3 argues that an examination of Victoria’s movement, like any other ‘women’s movement’, must take into consideration the ethnic and racialized ‘other’, in this thesis the Indigenous, African Canadian, and Chinese. The Conclusion discusses areas for future research, deeper research questions, and raises the question about whether the women’s movement in Victoria was successful.Graduate
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